UFO Sightings in California
15,215 UFO sightings reported in California since 1935, peaking in 2014 (869 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 15,215
- Span
- 1935–2028
- Peak year
- 2014 (869 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1935–2028 · peak 2014 (869 reports)
Top cities in California
Los Angeles
1942–2022 · peak 2007 (29 reports)
San Diego
1944–2022 · peak 2007 (32 reports)
Sacramento
1956–2022 · peak 2012 (26 reports)
San Jose
1947–2022 · peak 2012 (21 reports)
San Francisco
1956–2021 · peak 2008 (26 reports)
Fresno
1953–2022 · peak 2014 (18 reports)
Long Beach
1957–2022 · peak 2017 (13 reports)
Bakersfield
1961–2022 · peak 1995 (13 reports)
Santa Rosa
1955–2022 · peak 2015 (10 reports)
Santa Barbara
1968–2022 · peak 2020 (12 reports)
Riverside
1976–2020 · peak 2008 (11 reports)
Modesto
1947–2021 · peak 2009 (13 reports)
Redding
1986–2022 · peak 2012 (10 reports)
Burbank
1981–2021 · peak 2003 (24 reports)
Huntington Beach
1945–2020 · peak 2012 (8 reports)
Anaheim
1963–2020 · peak 2015 (12 reports)
Ventura
1967–2021 · peak 2012 (13 reports)
El Cajon
1969–2022 · peak 2014 (14 reports)
Irvine
1980–2022 · peak 2007 (18 reports)
Oakland
1968–2022 · peak 2003 (6 reports)
Madera (17 mi. e. of · near Hensley Lake), CA, USA
Extreemly loud, like a ram-jet, very large moving slowly from NW to SE. Could not see shape because of high fog. Live in canyon and ha
Paradise (just east of; Yankee Hill) · CA, USA
Humming sound outside--unlike any other I've heard around here.
Los Angeles · CA, USA
I saw 2 glowing balls move slowly across the sky at high altitude.
San Ramon · CA, USA
It looked like a shooting star except it was bigger but it did move like a shooting star.
Danville · CA, USA
Blue-green fireball with a tail to the NW headed down and to the west; appeared to be 13-17 miles away towards San Francisco Bay
Rohnert Park · CA, USA
While driving, I noticed a round torquoise colored sphere falling from the sky to the North East of Rohnert Park. The object dissapear
Eureka · CA, USA
they were red triangular shaped objects with a blue haze around them they left an orange trail across the sky and then stopped it shot
Lancaster (near Edwards Air Force Base) · CA, USA
Me and a friend were walking through a short field and we looked up and we saw a bright light that was moving rapidly from one directio
San Marcos · CA, USA
I awoke suddenly at 2:00a.m. & looked out into the sky and saw what I thought to be a very bright falling star. It disappeard, & though
San Francisco · CA, USA
big bright light, shining backwards in the shape of a V, object was moving forward ver slowly.
Los Angeles · CA, USA
There was a spotlight effect with flare of about 15 times the width of the light.
Granada Hills · CA, USA
Myself and 3 others were in a car on the freeway when we saw a vertically long flying object moving slowly approximately 4 months ago.
Oakland · CA, USA
My friends and I were approached directly by a cylindrical UFO from about three miles away to within 60ft of us, while driving.
San Francisco (Ocean side of) · CA, USA
Moon shaped, reddish-orange sphere (sligtly obscurred by clouds) object quickly descended into the ocean water in the horizon in front
Maricopa (4 miles west of · on Hwy 166), CA, USA
Saw an object to the left rear of a contrail left by a commericial aircraft that was heading towards Los Angeles. Object was two to thr
Palm Springs · CA, USA
Got up early to see the waning moon and how close Venus was to it. Sky is very clear in the desert - no lights near because we are in t
Red Bluff · CA, USA
as they flew over in a triangular formation, a white thing struck the lead craft, and scattered them.
Glenhaven · CA, USA
4 objects flying in close formation in a southwest direction at high speed, low altitude, making no sound accept the wind passing by th
Stanford · CA, USA
I am a senior in college, and was walking northwest in a campus parking lot. I looked up and noticed a very distinct formation of light
Marina del Rey/Los Angeles · CA, USA
While walking with three other witnesses at about dusk, I viewed a contrail headed toward me from a direct West compass heading. The o
Santa Rosa · CA, USA
Pale red light, approx. 1000 foot altitude, very slowly elevated to 1500 feet,then proceded towards our direction, so we continued driv
Orange (W/B SR-22 · Garden Grove Fwy, @ Main St.), CA, USA
While driving on the freeway at 2358 hours on a Sunday night, I observed a green fireball with an orange tail shoot straight down.
Eureka (sighted from) · CA, USA
Looking out window of house and saw a massive object descending in a straight path to earth near the horizon in the far distance.
Camp Pendelton · CA, USA
Blue Sphere
Santa Rosa · CA, USA
Strange, projectile-firing light over northern california.